Wherein We Join in the Book and Writing Insanity Linkup

You can join in this linkup too, if you like. Just jump over here and grab the questions (without my answers in them) and you’re ready to go. (More merrier, too, by the way!) Plus, extra points in the giveaway if you join in. (That’s not at all bribery.)

1. What was your overall favourite book this year? (Yes. Pick one.)

Mime: You cruel question-thinker. Do you know how hard a choice this was? I’m going to have to say The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff because it took me about a year to recover.

Cait: First of all, this is a stupid question. How can I pick one??!! I’ll go The Fault In Our Starsby John Green.

2. Favourite debut(s)? (Author must have been first published in 2013.)

Mime:Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil. It’s the most hilarious, geeky, writer book ever. It’s just plain funny.

Mime:Reboot by Amy Tintera, I think. You could have thrown it at someone and killed them.

Cait:Surprisingly, The Gathering Dark by Christine Johnson. 500+ pages. It was on Kindle so I didn’t realise it was that big. Mm.

10. Book(s) you followed the hype for and then loved!

Mime:Scarlet by Marissa Meyer. You wouldn’t believe how much I’m hyping for Cress right now.

Cait:Hype? HYPE?! I live off book hypes! (I also host them sometimes. Yay!) Sooo… These Broken Stars and The Royal Ranger by John Flanagan. I was very hypey by The Royal Ranger. Hypey is a very good word.

Cait:Settle down there, grasshopper. You’re such a book snark. Without doubt Aberrant by Ruth Silver. It was such a rip-off.

12. Favourite leading-female character?

Mime:Wren from Reboot by Amy Tintera. She’s an undead soldier with no emotions. Perfect recipe for an insipid, boring character, right? No way! She was the most go-getter girl I’ve ever read, probably, and in her Vulcan lack of emotions, she was amazingly compelling.

Cait:Um, Mime? Settle, petal. For me, I’m going to be a little less BONKERS and just say Elise from This Song Will Save Your Life. I mean, gosh, I just really related to her!

13. Favourite leading-male character?

Mime:Peaceable Sherwood from The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Pope. He’s a crack-up and absolutely a…gentleman! While being a really horrible bandit. He’s like Loki.

Mime:Thorne and his ego, from Scarlet. They were a match made in heaven, since Thorne has been in love with himself since birth.

Cait:Okay, first off, you’re assuming Thorne was made in heaven. Secondly, that’s called narcism. For me, definitely Tarver and Lilac from These Broken Stars. They’re basically like this:

Which is awesome and funny and not really romantic, but hey.

15. What book(s) hit the DNF list? (Did not finish.)

Mime:About a hundred manuals on how-to-be-a-good-Christian-teenager-without-answering-any-real-life-questions. As for fiction? Shadow of a Bullby Maia Wojciechowska was really boring. (They most interesting part of the book was the author’s name.)

Cait:NONE. NIL. I always finish my books.

16. What book(s) did you read out of your comfort-zone?

Mime:Well! First there were a lot of historical, of either heavy content or archaic language. Also, The Ghost in Tokaido Inn. I don’t usually read mysteries, historical mysteries, or Japanese historical mysteries. It has to have been the first of its kind for me.

Cait:I will admit (guiltily) that I haven’t read more then two books from any author this year. I know. It’s pretty shocking. But Stephanie Morrill, L.M. Augustine, and Marissa Meyer. (“M”s are popular if you’re an author?)

18. Top 5 books you’d recommend from all the books you’ve read this year?

Cait:No. I will not clap. Because…my goal was 70…buuuut! I read 90 and I’m still counting!

20. What’s a book you’re hugely excited for coming out in 2014?!

Mime:Shall we say it together, Cait?

Cait:CRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cait and Mime congratulate you for surviving this epic post. (The fabulous Gru GIF is your prize.) Mime is now reliving the feels of this years books. She’ll be emotionally unstable for the rest of the day. Cait is laughing at her. And also wishing she could eat some apple pie. Apple pie is good.

/freaks-out-about-CressI'd do this if I actually remembered half the books I read OR read books that I haven't read a million times. Most YA fiction these days, I can't read. Now, if this were next year… I would do it. I'm planning on reading EVERYTHING (nah, probably not…) in the library. Or at least some books I'd never normally read.Tabby (http://tabbys-corner.blogspot.com/)

Ohmygoshohmygosh….CRESS!!!! Goodreads is the only reason I know what I've read (and what I thought about) all the books this year. It was my first time doing the year-reading-challenge. LOVE IT. I'm totally doing it for the rest of my life. I basically decided this year I'd attempt to read ALL the books. 90 isn't quite there…buuuut, there's always next year right? 😉

You two never cease to make me laugh! Loved this post! You two just added a ton of books to my TBR pile! As if it wasn't gargantuan enough! I fear that it will topple over on me, crush me, and no one will ever find my body. Ok, maybe I'm being overdramatic, but it could happen!

Gargantuan, absolutely! So's mine! Too many good books, too little time. I just reserved Unremembered and Graceling from the library, and I've got about three historical fictions to finish by January… and I'm TRYING to reread Divergent, so I can read Allegiant. I'm tired just thinking about it.

See, this is why I follow your blog. So I will find all of these new wonderful books I'll never be able to finish because I have to work. Work and reading all the books that have to be read clash. Why don't bosses get this?! (And I read it because I love your posts, of course.) And because I like you two, of course. Hehe, it makes me get all nervous and grin whenever I see my book mentioned.

People should totally be allowed to drop everything in order to finish the good part. This should be a societal norm. I'm not voting for anyone (when I'm 18) unless they support perpetual reading. Aw, Jack! You're too nice. 🙂

Great feature girls! OMG I am so excited about Cress, my most anticipated of 2014 atm! I just finished This Song Will Save Your Life and thought it was awesome. Not sure about Reboot though, I didn't enjoy that one too much. I agree with your beautiful covers, and Tarver & Lilac as the favourite couple *starry eyes*Jeann @ Happy Indulgence

How did I miss this post? Mime, you make me feel awfully nostalgic for my Sonlight days. I remember The Iron Peacock being horrible and I LOVE PEACEABLE. I pretend I'm not prone to crushes of any type, but . . .

The Iron Peacock had such room to be really cool. They just… did virtually nothing for the entire book. She learned to play the bagpipes by playing (for the first time) for two hours without stopping. Just. No. No one has that much air in them. Ah, Peaceable. And Dick wasn't half bad either. And Eleanor and Barbra… I just adore that book. It's probably one of my favourite historicals of the entire year. 🙂